burchill.net » Gnome http://burchill.net Phil Burchill's Blog Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:15:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Start http://burchill.net/2007/02/02/start/ http://burchill.net/2007/02/02/start/#comments Fri, 02 Feb 2007 21:20:17 +0000 Phil Burchill http://burchill.net/2007/02/02/start/ I like to use a command line interface whenever possible. Sometimes though a windowed application is required. In MS Windows you use the start command to bring up the default app, (don’t use this much). In Cygwin I use the cygstart command.

So I was using my Ubuntu system and wanted to do something similar. The command it turns out is gnome-open. Bit of a mouthful so I have this aliased in my .bashrc file to cs for either cygstart or gnome-open which is much more snappy.

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